This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.* Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.* Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.* Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.* Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.* Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 11 "A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4David Scott Kastan2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries 23Martin Coyle3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47Katherine Rowe4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73Catherine Belsey5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Traged 95Philippa Berry6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108Sasha Roberts7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134Bernice W. Kliman8 Text and Tragedy l58Graham Holderness9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178Richard C. McCoy10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies 199Gordon Braden11 Tragedy and Geography 219Jerry Brotton12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 241Kenneth S. Rothwell13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262Mark Thornton Burnett14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284Ian Smith15 "There is no world without Verona walls": The City in Romeo and Juliet 303Naomi Conn Liebler16 "He that thou knowest thine": Friendship and Service in Hamlet 319Michael Neill17 Julius Caesar 339Rebecca W. Bushnell18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357Kim F. Hall19 King Lear 375Kiernan Ryan20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393Kathleen McLuskie21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 411Jyotsna G. Singh22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 430Hugh Grady23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452Cynthia MarshallIndex 473